Jeff Bale is Associate Professor of Language and Literacies Education at the University of Toronto. His research applies political-economic, anti-racist, and critical perspectives to educational language policy and teacher education. He holds a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, hosted by the Universität Bremen, and is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support his project on Language, Race, and Regulating Difference: The Heritage Languages Program in Ontario, 1977-1987. He is lead author of More Than “Just Good Teaching”: Centering Multilingualism and Countering Racism in Teacher Education (forthcoming, Multilingual Matters) and co-editor of Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation (Haymarket, 2012).
